Chrysler drops lifetime warranty for 2010 model year
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Chrysler drops lifetime warranty for 2010 model year
New vehicle warranties have been progressing in coverage over the last few years – thanks in large part to Hyundai’s 10 year/100,000 mile warranty — but Chrysler has announced it will be scaling back its warranty coverage, starting with the 2010 model year.
Chrysler currently employs a lifetime powertrain warranty, but the Michigan automaker will be launching a new five year, 100,000 mile warranty for the 2010 model year. The shift is intended to make warranty transfers much easier.
“The issue of transferability was something people found very appealing,” Chrysler spokesman Rick Deneau said of the new program. The five year, 100,000 mile warranty will be transferable to a new owner at no additional cost. according to Automotive News.
The new program will also be farther reaching than Chrysler’s current warranty program. The new program will cover SRT performance vehicles and the Dodge Viper, vehicles that were left out of Chrysler’s lifetime powertrain warranty. However, the Dodge Sprinter and Dodge Ram models equipped with diesel engines will still be excluded from the program.
Chrysler currently employs a lifetime powertrain warranty, but the Michigan automaker will be launching a new five year, 100,000 mile warranty for the 2010 model year. The shift is intended to make warranty transfers much easier.
“The issue of transferability was something people found very appealing,” Chrysler spokesman Rick Deneau said of the new program. The five year, 100,000 mile warranty will be transferable to a new owner at no additional cost. according to Automotive News.
The new program will also be farther reaching than Chrysler’s current warranty program. The new program will cover SRT performance vehicles and the Dodge Viper, vehicles that were left out of Chrysler’s lifetime powertrain warranty. However, the Dodge Sprinter and Dodge Ram models equipped with diesel engines will still be excluded from the program.
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From what I understood, you had to have all dealer services performed to keep the lifetime warranty, which could get real expensive. I'd rather have a "regular" warranty where I could do maintenance myself.
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Well this blows...I thought that was a great benefit. No, you do NOT have to have the car dealer serviced to keep the powertrain warranty active...but you DO have to document that you did stuff like oil changes...i.e. save receipts from when you buy oil, write down the intervals, etc.
The issue of transferability does suck though with the current program. I just sold my mom a new Grand Cherokee Limited that my wife and I want to buy off of her in 4-5 years when she's done with it. It would've been nice to have some sort of extended powertrain warranty available.
I wish they would do a 7/100 or 10/100...5/100 is lame because most of us don't hit 100k in 5 years...
The issue of transferability does suck though with the current program. I just sold my mom a new Grand Cherokee Limited that my wife and I want to buy off of her in 4-5 years when she's done with it. It would've been nice to have some sort of extended powertrain warranty available.
I wish they would do a 7/100 or 10/100...5/100 is lame because most of us don't hit 100k in 5 years...
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Apparently, there was a loophole in that lifetime warranty regarding SRT models.
The way I remember my son explaining it (he sold Chryslers in Tolleson Arizona and here in San Francisco for a time) that an SRT car that came in to the dealrship, was made after Chrysler started the lifetime program, and qualified as a certified used vehicle could be sold with Chrysler's lifetime warranty while the new SRTs on the showroom floor could not.
The way I remember my son explaining it (he sold Chryslers in Tolleson Arizona and here in San Francisco for a time) that an SRT car that came in to the dealrship, was made after Chrysler started the lifetime program, and qualified as a certified used vehicle could be sold with Chrysler's lifetime warranty while the new SRTs on the showroom floor could not.
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